GENERAL ALLENBY.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 November 1917, Page 2

GENERAL ALLENBY.

FROM UHLANS TO TURKS. General Sir Edmund Allenby, who is doing so well in the Palestine drive, is one of the numerous cavalry lead- 1 ers who have distinguished themselves I in the war. He led the cavalry division in Prance in the critical days of 1914. and fought a most gallant rearguard action from Mons. On one occasion, before the British Expeditionary Force had been in France a month he was nearly captured with the greatter part of his division. The retreat from Mons was still in progress writes a friend of the General’s, when the outposts came in to General Allenby’s staff with the news that an encircling movement was being attempted by German cavalry, At once the possibilities were seen by Sir Edmund, and he himself led the gallop to escape i this threat, riding by the side of a | French,-guide who sought safety for , his Allies. Throughout one never- j to-be-forgotten night the gallant men of the Cavalry Division urged on ' their tired horses. At one time there \ seemed every prospect that the force would be surrounded, for the enemy were hard on their heels. The Uhlans were, however, exhausted after their chase, and they halted just when a rlnal spurt, ‘ ‘ might have given them Che great prize for which they were striving—ltlrs flower: Jot fc,he British. Army, ’ 1